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partly to Government and partly to the owner, Nasrullah Khan, who divide
the taxes in the proportion of two-thirds to the former, and one-third to
the latter. It has a good caravanserai and post-house. Livestock are
400 cattle, 1,200 sheep and goats.
The village, which is surrounded by quantities of mulberry trees and has
a stream of clear sweet water, 3 feet 9 inches wide by 9 inches deep, pro
duces annually 15,000 mans of wheat and barley, and 500 mans of opium.
Cotton, til, and water-melons are also grown. Supplies are obtainable in
fair quantities.— (Preece, 1892 ; Wood, 1899 ; Sher Jang, 1902.)
BATAZ DABUN.
A village 3 or 4 miles to tlu northeast of Kirman Shahan on the road
from Kirman to Yazd.
BAIDHEH KHAK, vide BID KHL1Y under SHlBKUH PORTS.
BAILVAND— Lat. Long. Elev. 775'.
A village on the right bank of the Larvari river, 27 miles west by north of
Gujir in ’Arabistan. It belongs to peasants of Chehar Lang Bakhtiari,
and is situated on the southern slopes of some low, gravelly hills, 70 houses,
220 inhabitants ; 100 pair of oxen, 325,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly, taxes
1,000 krdns per annum.— {Preece.)
It belongs to Muhammed Hasan Khan and peasants of Chehar Lang.
Taxes : 25 heads have to make up 1,000 krdns per annum. The river water
is got from a well.
Temperature in April 68°.—Barometer 28’ 95°. {Report of a Journey
through the Bakhtidri Country to Shushtar. — Bell.)
BAIN— Lat. 32° 33' N. Long. 50° 46'E. Elev.
A large village surrounded by cultivation and pasture ground in the
Chehar Mahal district of Isfahan.— {Gordon.)
BAIRAK— Lat. 27° 41' N. Long. 54° 26' E. Elev.
A village on the Lar plain, 2| miles south-east of Lar, at the foot of the
hills which bound the plain on the south. It consists of about 100 houses,
and is surrounded by date^groves and cultivation.— {Wilson and
Crui kshan k, 1907.)
BAIR AM— LATr Long. Elev.
The third stage from Tahiri on the coast on the road to Jehrum. Said by
the natives to be a very large village, water obtainable from several
hirkehs. — {Stotherd, 1893.)
BAIRAMl RANGE— Lat. 28° 43' 17" N. Long. 51° 29' 56". Elev. 6430'
Name of the hills to north of Bushire, stretching from Ahram to Kuh~i-
Khurmuj. It runs parallel to that of Tangistan. It contains excellent
white rock-salt in small quantities, and sulphur ; is very bare, except where
the wild almond grows upon it.—{Durand.)
BAIR AN A V AND—
One of the sub-divisions of the Balaghinveh clans of the Pish Kuh section
of Lurs. The tribe occupy about 5,000 houses and maintain 3,000 sowars''
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